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Eurydice

EACEA National Policies Platform:Eurydice

Romania

Vocational and Technical Education is composed of the following:

  • Vocational Education

  • Technological High-School Education

  • Post-Secondary Non-Tertiary Education.

The technological path of high-school education includes the following profiles of studies:

  • technical

  • services

  • natural resources and environment protection.

 

Upper secondary education offers to students who completed compulsory education (students who completed lower secondary   and the lower cycle of high-school, and  students who completed vocational education respectively) the possibility to specialise in various fields - theoretical, vocational and aptitude-based.

 

Types of institution

Generally, upper secondary education in Romania is delivered in a few types of educational establishments:

 

In accordance with School Education Law 198/2023, as subsequently amended and complemented, the National Curriculum is a coherent set of elements regulating the activity of the teaching staff in school education and includes the framework curricula, the subject curricula and the national assessment standards. 

Key competences are set out in the School Education Law 198/2023 as landmarks of the National Curriculum and define a student’s training profile having associated descriptors for each education level.

Lower secondary education is – along with preschool education, primary education and high-school education – part of compulsory education. 

Lower secondary education lasts for 4 years and covers grades 5 to 8. Students’ age is generally between 11/12 years and 14/15 years.

According to the provisions of the Law of National Education (Law 1/2011), Art. 59, educational alternatives may be initiated and organized in the pre-university education system, with the approval of the Ministry of National Education, based on regulations approved by Minister’s Order.

Student assessment

In accordance with School Education Law (Law 198/2023), the purpose of assessment is to guide and optimize learning, as well as to manage one’s own learning results.

All assessments are conducted based on national assessment standards for every school subject.

In primary education, the results of assessment are expressed with grades (levels of achievement).

Verification of teachers’ use of and compliance with national assessment standards is provided through school inspection.